tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post146453714520785434..comments2024-03-28T07:47:38.176-07:00Comments on Edward Feser: Jazz-funk phenomenologistEdward Feserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13643921537838616224noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-28617298256508545352012-11-06T13:08:28.062-08:002012-11-06T13:08:28.062-08:00Hey, Gene, forgive me for living. Hey, Gene, forgive me for living. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06190656631060298475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-31932018315088615732012-11-06T08:55:25.378-08:002012-11-06T08:55:25.378-08:00I just conducted a mini-poll, using my wife's ...I just conducted a mini-poll, using my wife's geraniums. I asked two questions, and the results were overwhelming. Here are the questions and the results:<br /><br /><b>1.</b> <i>Given the context in which it was made, should Corrigan1's comment be taken as a statement of fact?</i><br /><br />Only 1 geranium said, "Yes." The other 14 geraniums said, "No."<br /><br /><b>2.</b> <i>Is it good for a father to be proud of his son?</i><br /><br />All 15 geraniums said, "Yes."Glennnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-8692621679312209732012-11-06T07:34:37.963-08:002012-11-06T07:34:37.963-08:00"but nowadays it's just something middle-..."but nowadays it's just something middle-class white guys pretend to like because they think it makes them look interesting"<br /><br />My 15-year-old son studies jazz drumming. He plays several hours a day. He has collected a couple of hundred jazz albums dating from the 20s to the very recent work. The idea he might be just pretending to like this because "it makes him look interesting" is really dumb.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-79502936199318198162012-11-06T03:59:09.263-08:002012-11-06T03:59:09.263-08:00I dunno - Jazz may have had genuine cultural roots...I dunno - Jazz may have had genuine cultural roots back in the 1920s, but nowadays it's just something middle-class white guys pretend to like because they think it makes them look interesting - a bit like going to a U2 gig.Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06190656631060298475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-35720105023289526422012-11-05T17:46:24.363-08:002012-11-05T17:46:24.363-08:00W.LindsayWheeler,
I've deleted your most rece...W.LindsayWheeler,<br /><br />I've deleted your most recent comment. Feel free to post such stuff at your own blog, but not here.<br /><br />Everyone else, don't feel the trolls.Edward Feserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13643921537838616224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-60370540670532402422012-11-05T15:44:22.475-08:002012-11-05T15:44:22.475-08:00@W. Lindsay Wheeler:
People like you give tradit...@W. Lindsay Wheeler: <br /><br />People like you give traditional conservatives and sober race realists a bad name. Jazz is a genuine cultural achievement and it is borne out of a genuine insight into the form of the Good. It exhibits the uniquely African genius for improvisation and sensual intuition into abstract forms. <br /><br />If you can't see this, then you aren't just a sober race "realist" who is following the psychometric evidence where ever it leads. Rather, you must be a resentment-loaded white racist who should quit wasting our time and go commune with your fellow travelers over at "alt-right" or some other stupid, neo-pagan, IQ-obsessed fever swamp.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-3800491834477339152012-11-05T13:26:32.009-08:002012-11-05T13:26:32.009-08:00Wheeler has explained in the past that he believes...Wheeler has explained in the past that he believes whites to be a superior race. Pay him no mind. <br /><br />Anyway, I get a huge kick, Prof. Feser, out of your forays into criticism and so forth. You're neck-and-neck with David Chalmers for the title of Hippest Philosopher. (Maybe you should look into borrowing one of his leather jackets--I think that would push you into the lead.)rank sophisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01644531454383207175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-86807924850835887662012-11-05T11:34:09.713-08:002012-11-05T11:34:09.713-08:00Don't know many team blue cheerleaders that li...Don't know many team blue cheerleaders that listen to jazz.E.H. Munrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09038816873823422488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-47590522013466333472012-11-05T08:02:57.308-08:002012-11-05T08:02:57.308-08:00You know, Plato wrote about music in the Republic....You know, Plato wrote about music in the Republic. Socrates notes that when the modes of the music change so do the laws of the state. <br /><br />Music forms the soul. <br /><br />Jazz is the worst form of music along with hip-hop, rap. They all have the same origins. <br /><br />Like a European should listen to music not his own? Is that Wisdom? Is not Jazz overwhelmingly the music of Leftists?W.LindsayWheelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06236577164127792348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-3249844955159015002012-11-04T16:26:31.959-08:002012-11-04T16:26:31.959-08:001. "Hope for the best, expect the worst, and ...1. "Hope for the best, expect the worst, and accept what comes."<br /><br /><i>...the work of a man who's done with optimism and pessimism alike.</i><br /><br />Ok, "accept what comes" will have to do.<br /><br />2. Sunken Condos? The night belongs to Mona?<br /><br /><i>No, the condos did not sink.<br />The night belonged to Sandy, sea,<br />And piled high the sand she did.<br />But, hey, it is what it is.</i><br /><br />(3. I think I may be bored.)Glennnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-74550175185570351402012-11-04T14:22:25.253-08:002012-11-04T14:22:25.253-08:00You lost me after the word "jazz" in the...You lost me after the word "jazz" in the title of the article.Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06190656631060298475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-62046437626083582662012-11-04T09:26:11.391-08:002012-11-04T09:26:11.391-08:00Lovely piece Ed. I appreciated SD throughout the &...Lovely piece Ed. I appreciated SD throughout the '70s and liked DF's Nightfly a lot. A class act individually and jointly. I was, however, left indifferent by the acclaimed Two Against Nature.MWQhttp://manwithoutqualities.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-38449863178324455042012-11-03T16:53:48.267-07:002012-11-03T16:53:48.267-07:00I've only heard 'Slinky Thing,' but Jo...I've only heard 'Slinky Thing,' but Jon Herington kills it on that track. Steel Dan always attracted some of the best session guitarists over the decades (who can forget Larry Carlton's solo on Kid Charlemagne?). In fact, I recently discovered that freakin' Wayne Krantz played with Steely Dan in the 90's as well as on some solo Fagen stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcfRmQeEBywAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-60474636910283561012012-11-03T13:52:49.440-07:002012-11-03T13:52:49.440-07:00Fagen has a new album! How on earth did I miss tha...Fagen has a new album! How on earth did I miss that? Thanks for the tip Dr. Feser!Michael G. Muradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03680269186451895151noreply@blogger.com